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Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

By Abby Phillip, Washington Post | 05.20.2014

California legislators are hoping to make resolving the tricky issue of parental rights as easy as filling out a form...

By Dr. Gordon Atherley, VoiceAmerica | 05.19.2014

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Enola G. Aird

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD

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Enola G. Aird is a...

By Laura Mauldin, Somatosphere | 05.19.2014
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I am grateful to Somatosphere for inviting to me to write a post for the blog. I was...

By Alda Sigmundsdóttir, The Iceland Weather Report | 05.19.2014
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Last week I posted a picture on our Facebook page of the contents of an envelope I received...

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 05.19.2014
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On paper, Dr. Robert C. Green should be worried. An analysis of his DNA flagged a rare mutation...

By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune | 05.15.2014

In the fall of 2010, a team of scientists in California injected human stem cells into the spinal cords of...

By Arthur Allen, The New York Times | 05.15.2014

Few areas of science have contributed more to human misery than the study of racial difference. In the 1920s, eugenicists...

By Alina Shron, The Copenhagen Post | 05.15.2014
A Danish company offers parents-to-be a sex selection service for their future child. For around 40,000 kroner, couples can choose...